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Originally Posted by Lee3691
I'm just trying to find out why / who calls it gravy. I just know it's not actual Italians.
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Well, "actual" Italians (whatever that means) call their marinara sauce "salsa", so they must clearly be wrong since we have a different name for it.
Restaurants might call it bolognese. Some Italian-American families call it gravy.
Why is anything called what it is? It's a regional/cultural thing. We've been calling it that in my family for as long as I can remember. My mom's parents are off the boat and my dad's mom is 2nd generation, is that "actually" Italian enough for you?